page_title: Haute-Saône
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Haute-Saône / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Courbe montrant la croissance de la population du département de Haute-Saône entre 1872 et 2005
context_page_description: Haute-Saône is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of Northeastern France. Named after the Saône River, it had a population of 237,242 in 2016. Its prefecture is Vesoul; its sole subprefecture is Lure.
context_section_description: In common with many rural departments in France, Haute-Saône has experienced a savage reduction in population, from nearly 350,000 in the middle of the nineteenth century to barely 200,000 on the eve of the Second World War, as people migrated to newly industrialising population centres, often outside Metropolitan France.
  During the second half of the twentieth century the mass mobility conferred by the surge in automobile ownership permitted some recovery of the population figure to approximately 234,000 in 2004.
  The rural nature of the department is highlighted by the absence of large towns and cities.  Even the department's capital, Vesoul, still had a population below 20,000 in 2010.
caption: Population Changes between 1872 and 2005 (source:INSEE). The baseline on this graph is set at 200,000 people, and the increments represented by the horizontal grid lines are of 10,000.
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